Well, we didn't leave today after all. ¡ni modo! We hadn't really followed through on the registration for our mexican truck, when we decided to leave it with a friend we went and got the paperwork back. It seemed like too much to ask a friend to do, I sure wouldn't ask someone in the US to do to the DMV for me. So, we delayed and planned to go into Playa and see about registering it today.
It's been a bit hectic the last few days, Mimi's root canal and tooth rebuild and yet another meeting with the condo management and lots of other final stuff. The condo meeting went well, I hope that it all works as planned and there aren't any other problems. I also hope what I perceived as threats were just talk. One thing said about that was un perro que raspa, no muerde A barking dog doesn't bite. I don't think that is true of dogs but maybe of people.
At any rate, we slept late. I woke up at 10am and realized that the atomic clock was an hour off as I hadn't turned on DST and it was really 11am. Everyone knows that you can't get anything done in a govt office in Mexico after 1pm, so we went back to sleep. It was a great day, we slept and read blogs and took another nap and walked the dogs on the beach and ate leftover Mennonite steak from last night. We've been going out to eat too much and we still have a bunch of that really good Belize Mennonite meat in the freezer, we've got to start barbequing and cooking at home more before we hit the US border.
So tomorrow we will be up and gone as early as possible to see if I can get the truck registered at Hacienda with my basic spanish. Then we will hopefully find the insurance guy at the bar and get it insured. About that part, the local insurance guy holds regular hours at the Buena Vida on Monday at Happy Hour. Everyone lines up that needs to talk to him and he sets up a table on the sand. He couldn't make it this Monday and sent word he will be there tomorrow. Since his office is in Playa or Cancun, it's kind of a Mexican version of the bookmobile.
Saturday was the one day our condo was open and we got a lot of stuff hung on the walls. It looks good but unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures. The gay women we met on the beach were stuck without a place to stay their last night due to a (does this sound familiar?) screw up with the scheduling where they were. We let them stay in our condo and they had an early morning flight. So, when I remembered about the pictures, it was late and they were asleep. It's nice to get all that framed stuff out of the RV, it's been sitting on the couch for a week and it took up a lot of room in a small space.
I still have to send out the availability email for the condo, this is the main thing we will have to do every week since we are holding the calendar. It won't be hard this time, just about everything is available as they moved any bookings they had to another condo.
¡ni modo! If you want to live happily in Mexico, you have to master that phrase and all it implies. It more or less translates to 'what can you do' and is a bit fatalistic but keeps you from wearing yourself out on the small stuff. Maybe a better way to explain it would be the english joke, 'don't sweat the small stuff...it's all small stuff'.
It's been a bit hectic the last few days, Mimi's root canal and tooth rebuild and yet another meeting with the condo management and lots of other final stuff. The condo meeting went well, I hope that it all works as planned and there aren't any other problems. I also hope what I perceived as threats were just talk. One thing said about that was un perro que raspa, no muerde A barking dog doesn't bite. I don't think that is true of dogs but maybe of people.
At any rate, we slept late. I woke up at 10am and realized that the atomic clock was an hour off as I hadn't turned on DST and it was really 11am. Everyone knows that you can't get anything done in a govt office in Mexico after 1pm, so we went back to sleep. It was a great day, we slept and read blogs and took another nap and walked the dogs on the beach and ate leftover Mennonite steak from last night. We've been going out to eat too much and we still have a bunch of that really good Belize Mennonite meat in the freezer, we've got to start barbequing and cooking at home more before we hit the US border.
So tomorrow we will be up and gone as early as possible to see if I can get the truck registered at Hacienda with my basic spanish. Then we will hopefully find the insurance guy at the bar and get it insured. About that part, the local insurance guy holds regular hours at the Buena Vida on Monday at Happy Hour. Everyone lines up that needs to talk to him and he sets up a table on the sand. He couldn't make it this Monday and sent word he will be there tomorrow. Since his office is in Playa or Cancun, it's kind of a Mexican version of the bookmobile.
Saturday was the one day our condo was open and we got a lot of stuff hung on the walls. It looks good but unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures. The gay women we met on the beach were stuck without a place to stay their last night due to a (does this sound familiar?) screw up with the scheduling where they were. We let them stay in our condo and they had an early morning flight. So, when I remembered about the pictures, it was late and they were asleep. It's nice to get all that framed stuff out of the RV, it's been sitting on the couch for a week and it took up a lot of room in a small space.
I still have to send out the availability email for the condo, this is the main thing we will have to do every week since we are holding the calendar. It won't be hard this time, just about everything is available as they moved any bookings they had to another condo.
¡ni modo! If you want to live happily in Mexico, you have to master that phrase and all it implies. It more or less translates to 'what can you do' and is a bit fatalistic but keeps you from wearing yourself out on the small stuff. Maybe a better way to explain it would be the english joke, 'don't sweat the small stuff...it's all small stuff'.
posted by Jonna at 11:04 PM
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